Exclusive: Inside Zohran Mamdani's NYC Sports Equinox (feat. Adam Friedland)
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What is the significance of the sports equinox in NYC?
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre, and today we're going to find out what this sound is.
I'm going to call James Dolan now and be like, hey, we got to broker this piece. By the way, nice to meet you.
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So one thing to remember about Pablo Torre finds out is that we are unapologetically based in my hometown of New York City, which also means that I did not have a yard growing up and that I love getting out of our studio to touch grass. Is this the mansion? Yes, it is. But while previous adventures have taken us birdwatching in Central Park, not to mention our journey to Death Row in Texas... This was different.
Seeing the mayor with these guys.
This here is me walking towards the highly secure backyard of a 227-year-old house on 88th Street in Manhattan with yellowish clapboard located right by the East River called Gracie Mansion, where the current resident just happens to be living a sports year while running a sports town that justified a rare sensation these days, optimism.
CNN projects that Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani, the Democratic candidate, will be elected the next mayor of New York, New York. We have held our breath for longer than we know. We have held it in anticipation of defeat. Held it because the air has been knocked out of our lungs too many times to count. Held it because we cannot afford to exhale. Thanks to all of those who sacrificed so much, we are breathing in the air of a city that has been reborn.
Zoran Mamdani joined PTFO back before he won the election to become the new mayor of New York City last fall at age 34. which was before his favorite soccer club, Arsenal, lifted their first Premier League trophy in more than two decades, just last week.
And before, his favorite basketball team, the New York Knicks, made the NBA Finals for the first time in almost three decades. The day after that... It's over.
Believe it, Knicks fans, for the first time in 27 years, the New York Knicks are going to the NBA Finals. The dream season continues.
But now it was a brisk Saturday in Manhattan, a bit of a sports equinox for the Gooner, as Arsenal supporters are known, living at Gracie Mansion. Game seven between the Thunder and the Spurs, the Knicks' next opponent, was looming that evening, and the Champions League final against Europe's defending champs, Paris Saint-Germain, was less than an hour away, which may help explain why the mayor showed up for our quick but wide-ranging visit with an arsenal kit that was tucked underneath his suit jacket. What up?
What's going on?
Welcome to my home. Thanks for having us in your yard. You're already, already just gooning. Just straight gooning. That's not the term we use.
Is that not it?
No, we're gooners. Gooner, sorry, goonering. But it's not a verb. I mean, I don't know. Not for me. Him, absolutely, though. It's a real yes and situation.
Mr. Mayor, we'll throw a mic on you real quick if that's okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Your hair looks great.
I was going to say. Look at this. I need to mog the mayor. I've been blow drying my hair. Have you? Yeah, I started. Actually? Yeah. That's a lot of maintenance, right? I know. But this is, I'm 40, and I'm like... Hairline's looking great for 40. Philippines, man. The Philippine DNA.
I'm on that minoxidil.
Are you really? Yeah. Is that a sponsored ad read? No, I'm just telling you the truth. When? Since when?
This is like six months ago. Six months ago? I just started to see, I was like, this is not going my way. That's the job. The job does that to you. It was like pre-job. Just mortality. I'm just, like, trying to push off turkey. Like, out of the term. How long will it be?
Are you okay if I just clip to your back? Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Till you show up in an airport in Turkey with a disguise on. How are you doing otherwise? I'm good. I'm good. You cold? I'm freezing.
I get you like a thermal.
That would be deeply emasculating. No one would see you wearing it. It would be under your t-shirt. No, they're capturing all this.
Okay.
I gave my brother a New York Times subscription.
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